Recently I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to be a guest on the Herding Code podcast and the Channel 9 Web Camps TV video series to discuss SPA. Herding Code Podcast The episode of the Herding Code podcast was hosted by Jon Galloway, K Scott Allen and Scott Koon. We sat down together, along with my friend Ward Bell, and we discussed the state of SPA today and the new Visual Studio templates. It was a very casual conversation between the 5 of us discussing a SPA from many angles. It’s a good listen for anyone who may [...]
Want to build a SPA but can’t decide where to start? Use Hot Towel and in seconds you’ll have a SPA and all the tools you need to build on it! You can get Hot Towel along with the new RTM version of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, as announced by Scott Guthrie today. Download the VSIX for the Hot Towel SPA template here Hot Towel: Because you don’t want to go to the SPA without one! Hot Towel creates a great starting point for building a Single Page Application (SPA) with ASP.NET. Out of the box you it provides [...]
Today the ASP.NET team released the RTM version of the ASP.NET and Web Frameworks 2012.2. This includes updates for ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Web Pages, Web Optimization, SignalR, and the ASP.NET SPA Template. The official announcement is on Scott Guthrie’s blog. I’ll focus this post on the new SPA templates that accompany this release. Comparing the Templates I created a quick comparison chart of what’s inside each template. All of them have value depending on where your interests lay. ASP.NET SPA Breeze Ember Durandal Hot Towel Includes ToDo Sample Yes Yes Yes Includes Bare Template Yes Yes Navigation [...]
Often I like to test my web apps in a real website. For me, Windows Azure is ideally suited for this. I can spin up a site as needed, publish my demo, test it on a variety of devices, and tear it down when I am done. the best part is that it only takes a few moments to learn how to do this. What do you need? Just install Visual Studio 2012 and open a Windows Azure account and you are all set. In this post I’ll tell you how to set up an Azure website, how to publish [...]
If you enjoy developing with Knockout.js, then you’ll be glad to hear that support has been added for Knockout Intellisense in Visual Studio 2012! These features are pretty cool and will save me and other developers from senseless typos. Developers who are newer to Knockout.js will enjoy the intellisense as an easy way to quickly learn the available built-in bindings. For this post I’ll explore these new features by using the new SPA Template included in the same release. You can read more about the SPA Template in my post Inside the ASP.NET SPA Template. The ASP.NET and Visual Web [...]
The Single Page App (SPA) template is now available in the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 (Release Candidate). This SPA template has been updated since its beta release which I blogged about here. Kudos to Mads Kristensen for spearheading this at Microsoft. I’ve been a big fan of SPA and of Mads for a while. I was thrilled to see some of my feedback (from my previous post/review) make it into this template. This post contains a complete walk through of all of the key pieces on the server and client side. What is the Intention of the Template? Since [...]
Zen Coding is a faster way to write HTML using a CSS style selector syntax, and you can now use Zen Coding in Visual Studio via the Web Essentials 2012 plug in (v1.7). Zen Coding was introduced by Sergey Chikuyonok in 2009 (according to Smashing Magazine) and has been updated over time to become a great way to write monotonous HTML much more efficiently. Special thanks to Mads Kristensen and his team at Microsoft for adding Zen Coding to Visual Studio 2012 via Web Essentials 2012 (along with many other great features). Quick Reference Here is a quick list of [...]
There are a bunch of shiny new toys, including a new Single Page App (SPA) template, inside the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update BUILD Prelease ( Download link for it is on this page here ) . The original template for SPA made an appearance over a year ago in a preview and was later removed prior to VS 2012 being released. (You may recall Upshot.js was part of the former template before both of their demises) The first run at the former template wasn’t really a template, but rather a specific way to create a SPA. This new template is a template . Kudos to Mads [...]
Are you ready? Both Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8 RTM today for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. And they are available for download now! A word of caution … I had to go to the details list and search for both for them to appear (they did not show up in the home page for downloads for me). I’ve been using Windows 8 and VS 2012 (public) pre-releases for a while now and they are very solid and fast. For those interested in Win8 … I grabbed these snippets of dates from the Windows blog post: • August 15th: Developers [...]
